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...bulk vessels for the Oil Fleet, particularly on the Caspian Sea and on the Volga. I request:
1) to obtain on this question an official conclusion from Gosplan,
2) to secure a precise decision by an Official conference of the NKVT, NKPS and if there is any other interested commissariat—then its [participation].

Lenin.

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# NOTE TO F.E. DZERZHINSKY

To Comrade Dzerzhinsky.

August 5, 1921

I received your note with an exposition of two schemes. I am entirely in agreement with you that it is necessary to uphold the scheme of the NKPS with the preservation of the position and independence of the Chief Administrator.¹ I have been informed that Rudzutak² arrives around August 15; we should accelerate his arrival if possible. Let me know whether you are satisfied with the present Chief of Railways and what other candidates you have on hand for this position.³

Lenin.

¹ On July 28, 1921 the SNK adopted a new regulation on the NKPS, according to which the central administration of railway transport comprised, as an independent department [of the latter].

² Y.E. Rudzutak—Chairman of Tsektran.

³ The head of the main directorate of communications at that time was engineer Borisov (see his report at the congress of road administrators, *Pravda*, No. 197, September 6, 1921).

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# TELEGRAM TO THE PETROPAVLOVSK REVKOM*

Petropavlovsk, Revkom, copy: Petrokokchestvoi

August 5, 1921

In view of the exceptional significance of the structures of the shock food supply railway line Petropavlovsk—Kokchetov, taking into account that the relocation of the administration is equivalent to a disruption of the work that has been established with great difficulty and [is] currently in full swing, I propose to leave the administration of Petrokokchestvoi in its former premises. Report on execution.

Chairman Lenin.

* Printed from a typewritten copy. Ed.